#ANDREW YANG TWITTER NOVEMBER POLL TRIAL#

“The vast majority of unlicensed street vendors are adding value in various ways,” Yang told reporters. 19.4K 175.4K 1M Andrew Yang AndrewYang If you find out about a nation-threatening pandemic and your first move is to adjust your stock portfolio you should probably not be in a job that serves the public interest. “We cannot have a leader who tweets first and thinks second, doesn’t understand that words have policy consequences.”īut Yang said he had heard from “I think five different small businesses” upset that the city had failed to crackdown on specific vendors “driving customers away.” The push to expand street vendors licenses has been opposed by some restaurant groups. 9,181 Following 1.6M Followers Media Andrew Yang AndrewYang We need a new President. “He wants to create a crackdown on vendors, and send enforcement to the immigrant communities that powered us through the pandemic,” fellow mayoral contender and City Comptroller Scott Stringer said at the event. of his opponents on Monday held a press conference specifically to denounce the tweet. The 2019 incident involving the NYPD and an unlicensed churro vender in the subway. “I understand if someone took it as my presenting it as that,” the current polling frontrunner for June 22’s Democratic primary said. Yang said his tweet - which called for “enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors” - made the issue “seem like it’s a zero sum game between unlicensed street vendors and retailers,” which he claimed was not his intention. In four national polls taken so far this year, Yang’s net favorability rating (favorable rating minus unfavorable rating) among Democrats has averaged +6 points.

The mayoral frontrunner called the harsh online reaction to his tweet “a product of that medium.” It’s probably bureaucratic but it seems political. But literally no one will believe that or make a distinction. It wasn’t the right medium for it,” Yang told reporters during an unrelated event in Brooklyn. It seems like this was authorized by a local judge and a particular FBI office without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government. “I regret that I took on such a frankly complicated and nuanced issue on that medium. Trump nemesis Cuomo trashes DOJ Mar-a-Lago raid year after his ousterĭemocratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang on Monday tried to walk back his controversial tweet calling for a crackdown on unlicensed street vendors - telling reporters that he “regrets” bringing up the “complicated and nuanced issue” on social media.

#ANDREW YANG TWITTER NOVEMBER POLL TRIAL#

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